Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-27
HEAVY FLOODS EAST.
Torrents Descend From the Mountains
and Garry Everything Be.
fore Them.
Warehouses, Bridges, ETC., Swept Away
and the Ground Washed into
ChasmS in Which Cars
Tumble.
Floods and Wash0ute.

GREENFIELD, Mass, July 25.-Never be
fore in it's history has Miller's Falls expert
enced such damage by water as was occa-
stoned by Sunday g freshets. Between that
town and Irving a distance of six miles,
there twenty-five washouts and eleven land
slides by actual count. During Sunday
there were violent rains and q torrent of
water came rushing down the mountains
west of Fitchburg depot. gulleying it
badly. In short time the depot fiat was
buried under three feet of water. Just
east of the passenger station is freight
house. This the water totally under
mined tearing chasm about sixty feet
wide and twelve feet deep through the
gravelly soil. Passing underneath the
side tracks it dropped freight and all
COAL CARS INTO THE cHAsM. END UP.
The torrent rushed down the steep incline
to the river 200 feet, tearing gorge 2Ofeet
deep and so feet wide. undermining coal
sheds and shade trees in it's passag. South
of the Lake House is another gully ten feet
deep and fifteen wide. A section OF the
Fitchburg railroad yard tracks are under
mined in places quite badly. Bridge street
is quilted so as to be impassable. Pine
Meadow to Highway bridge. at Mortified
Farms. is washed away. The highway
bridges between Miller's Falls and Irving
are all gone, and
TRAVEL BY TEAM Is IMPOSSIBLE,
on which account transfer of passengers
cannot be made. Irving highway, passing
through the woods near the river on the
fats is six feet under water and the culvert
over the ravine at the mouth of Miller's
river is washed out 25 feet deep. All travel
between Miller's Falls and Mortified is
cut of. A prominent railroad man said
that if the railroad puts on it's entire force
of work men it will take fully two weeks be-
fore the road is anywhere near repaired.
OF THE TWENTY-FIVE wAsHoUrs
either one is large enough to engulf a train
and it is a wonder that no fatalities have
occurred. There is block in the traffic
on both sides OF Irvings. At Wetson
several highway bridges are down and all
roads are badly washed. The most of the
damage on the railroad and highway was
caused by the swelling OF the small noun
tain streams, which rushed from the hills
and made raging torrents. Altogether
these are the worst washouts that Frank
lin county has experienced in many years,
and sig larly enough, they are all within
the radius of six miles.
BRIDGE GOES OUT.
GREENFIELD, Mass, July 25.-The freshet
has just swept away the iron railroad
bridge at Erving, which will cause a still
further delay to traffic.
n0n
DOVER, N. H., July 25.-All the rivers IN
this part of the state are higher now than
exer known before in the summer. The
freshet in the Lamprey river, at New Mar
ket, this morning carrie away large part
| OF the old dam OF the New Market Cotton
Mills, also the foundation OF the No.
Picker Mills. Engines and derricks en-
ployed in constructing new dam were
swept away. The Cacheco river is rising
| rapidly and the depth OF the water rushins
over the dam is ~ riches, the highest eve1
known in summer.